Maybe fix the Irish tax loophole first?

Hadn’t heard of that, but can’t say I’m surprised.

Is this related to the kernel/rust drama, or the political situation in the US. Sure, the drama could have been handled better by the maintainers, but would that make Asahi lina feel unsafe?

I guess all sort of neckbeards are feeling empowered to spew hatred on the internet right now.

E=MC2 TROOPER

*taught :⁠-⁠) No worries, your intent is coming across clearly.

Tip from long-time arch user (btw). Avoid installing or making changes to system installation without going through pacman. I.e., don’t use install scripts or make install invocations requiring sudo. More often than not that will cause headaches long-term. PKGBUILDs are actually reasonably simple to create if you need to install something not in the AUR, and it will keep you from overwriting files and leaving files behind after uninstalling.

I wouldn’t say that there’s a major religious theme. It’s just that Bob doesn’t interact with that many characters except himself, so those interactions felt more important to the plot. Then again, I wouldn’t say that the Brazilian navy AI was a very multifaceted character either.

!Didn’t make it clear, but I was mainly referring to the storyline on the inhabited planet. I got annoyed by the main character essentially slaughtering natives and then at some point admitting to himself that he knew nothing about them as a species. Towards the end of that plot line there was some negotiation with the cult leader back on earth, at which point I was quite fed up.!<

There were a lot of fun aspects too though, like bob discovering stuff and making gadgets.

Enjoyed project hail mary, but bobiverse didn’t quite do it for me. >!Atheist gets recruited by religious cult. Proceeds to go to planet of the apes to play god. I found it to be mostly ok up to that point though. !<

Religion as portrayed in this book makes the characters very one dimensional. It’s also peppered with references to popular culture, which doesn’t really do that much for me.

First book by him for me, so can’t comment on his overall style. The main plot didn’t resolve in this one, it leaves it to a sequel. There’s definitely a tendency to introduce technology from ancient races in the plots which may be used in that way. Didn’t feel jarring to me in this book though.

Does shiny mean it’s gold-plated? :⁠-⁠)

Just finished Exodus: The Archimedes Engine on audible. Space opera with a lot of world building. A bit slow to get started, but I really enjoyed it.

Edit: not sure if I would classify it as engineering porn though, although there is an emphasis on use of technology

And then Huawei allegedly stole Cisco’s IP? Ah, the irony

Hang on, my pager is making a noise

One possible culprit is CPU-GPU memory transfers. Have you tried encoding without burning in the subtitles? Maybe the burn-in requires a CPU transfer after decoding and then back again to encode

That’s why the media should be held accountable for what they say. Which I suppose would be the case if it wasn’t for the loophole of disguising news as entertainment.

Hah, that’s an interesting tidbit

The file/document integration is based on SharePoint. Shit built on top of a nice pile of manure

Edit: and don’t get me started on the teams android app which requires access to all your media if you try to share a single image. If you share it as a file attachment however it’s completely fine. No you’re not getting access to my files and pictures MS, keep your filthy adware fingers off my data

Well, that totally makes sense, thanks. I’ve been doing it the other way around for some reason

Mouthwash before brushing? Because you don’t rinse out the toothpaste?